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The Morning after Iraq
(Jerusalem Post) Norman Podhoretz - •American support for the establishment of a Palestinian state is strictly conditional. It depends upon the replacement of the current regime by a leadership which is "not compromised by terrorism" (Bush's June 24 speech) and "abandons forever the use of terror" (February 26 speech); which is dedicated to the development of a free society (both speeches); and which genuinely wishes to live in peace with Israel (ditto). •The State Department's road map charts a path that twists and winds its way back to another Oslo. George Bush's road map charts a path in the opposite direction, and it is one on which Israel need not fear to embark. Israel should hold up George Bush's road map as a beacon and hold the U.S. to it. •I say this as one who has always believed that a Palestinian state would constitute a mortal danger to Israel, and who opposed the Oslo Accords from the start. But I have also always recognized that if the day ever came when the Arab world in general, and the Palestinians in particular, made their own inner peace with the existence of a sovereign Jewish state in the Middle East, it would at last be possible to envisage the emergence of a sovereign Palestinian state with which Israel could safely live.